| If the mother of all invention is necessity, then meatballs are her offspring!
The reality is that meatballs are a smart way to use up tough cheap cuts of meat along with any stale bread. By adding ingredients, meatballs are a great way to stretch a meal and feed a hungry family quickly. We know that the meatball originated in Persia but how did it get to be one of the most popular meals in Canada? The traditional spaghetti and meatballs originated as a result of Italian immigration to Canada from about the 1870s onwards. Most of the Italian immigrants who came to Canada were largely impoverished and from the southern part of Italy mainly Sicily, Calabria, Campania, and Abruzzi. If it wasn’t for the necessity to leave Italy and to be able to feed your family economically, we may not have seen the meatball appear on Canadian plates until well into the 1900s. Today, this meal of necessity has now transformed into thousands of fantastic meatball dishes! Now it’s time for us to cook our own spectacular meatball dish that is not so much for necessity as for convenience and flavour. Your local No Frills has a great sale on Lean Ground Beef for $2.88/lb. And try our meatball recipe: Beef / Chicken / Turkey Meatballs with ZEG Sauce Glaze. When cooking your meatballs, don’t forget the history and the deeper meaning behind these foods of necessity as you serve them glazed in ZEG Sauces! Enjoy! |
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